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CSO/RP/OR/1829/131

Letters from Maj Thomas D’Arcy, Inspector General of Police [for Ulster], Belfast [County Antrim], and Brookeboro[ugh] [County Fermanagh], forwarding report he received from chief constable Henry Ross Lewin, Ballyshannon [County Donegal], relating to Protestant attacks on Roman Catholics in the town. Lewin states that an Orange procession was held in the town on 19 January 1829, ‘composed from three to four hundred men… Armed with Swords Pistols and Yeomanry Firelocks etc., they had five stand of colours with Drum and Fife’ but on their return, ‘a few of the stragglers were attacked by the opposite party and beaten with sticks’. Also refers to assault of Mr Taylor by Orangemen at his home at Cranbrook, County Fermanagh, on 19 January 1829. Annotations contain 3 sets of initials on reverse, including Lt Gen Sir John Byng, Commander in Chief of the Irish army, as well as legal opinion of Henry Joy, Attorney General.

19 Jan 1829-10 Feb 1829

1829

CSO/RP/OR/1829/132

Letter from the magistrates assembled at Dungarvan Petty Sessions [County Waterford], to Francis Leveson Gower, Chief Secretary, relating to the misconduct of churchwarden Mr Bagge in the collection of tithes and seeking legal advice. States that ‘It appears that… to save himself the trouble of collecting [he] employed some Men of Infamous Character to drive all the Cattle they could find in the dead hour of the Night and lodged them in the Pound with directions to the Poundkeeper not to give them up unless a certain sum was paid’. Annotation on reverse giving legal opinion of Richard W Greene.

24 Jan 1829-27 Jan 1829

1829

CSO/RP/OR/1829/133

Letter from magistrate Capt William Dobbin, Borrisokane, [County Tipperary], to Francis Leveson Gower, Chief Secretary, informing him of an attack on Daniel Harrison of Brookfield on 20 January 1829, when his firearms were stolen.

22 Jan 1829

1829

CSO/RP/OR/1829/134

Letter from Valentine Bennett, justice of the peace for County Galway, Thomastown, Frankford, [County Offaly], to William Gregory, Under Secretary, relating to a duel fought between [John] Doolan and [William] Sadlier, during which David St Leger Davis of Kingsborough, King’s County [Shinrone, County Offaly], was shot and killed by William McDonough of Portumna [County Galway], who was acting as Doolan’s second. Bennett describes how McDonough ‘shot Davis dead, who was standing within a yard of him, the ball entered Davis’s head, a little over the Right eyebrow, passed out at the back of his head, and lodged in the head of a countryman, who happened to be standing by, and who now lies without the smallest chance of his recovery… McDonough… succeeded in mounting his horse and making his escape’. Encloses copy of proceedings of subsequent inquest held at Munny on 6 February 1829, containing transcripts of affidavits sworn by several witnesses testifying to McDonough’s guilt. Also encloses signed and sealed warrant for McDonough’s arrest.

6 Feb 1829-7 Feb 1829

1829

CSO/RP/OR/1829/135

Letter from Sir John Harvey, Inspector General of Police [for Leinster], Portarlington, [County Laois], to William Gregory, Under Secretary, forwarding letter he received from Lt HB Wray, Subinspector for Queen’s County [County Laois], Maryboro[ugh] [Portlaoise], reporting the violent assault of Daniel Deevey and Owen Dunne by John McEvoy and James Nolan on 26 January 1829, ‘from the effects of which… Deevey has since died!’

5 Feb 1829-6 Feb 1829

1829

CSO/RP/OR/1829/136

Letter from Maj Thomas D’Arcy, Inspector General of Police [for Ulster], Belfast, [County Antrim], to William Gregory, Under Secretary, forwarding letter he received from chief constable Robert Ormsby, Brookboro [Brookeborough, County Fermanagh], enclosing transcript copy of 4 printed placards posted around the village and nearby Maguiresbridge the previous evening in opposition to Catholic Emancipation.

16 Feb 1829-17 Feb 1829

1829

CSO/RP/OR/1829/137

Letter from Maj Thomas D’Arcy, Inspector General of Police [for Ulster], Belfast, [County Antrim], to Francis Leveson Gower, Chief Secretary, forwarding letter he received from chief constable William Henry, Clogher, [County Tyrone], relating to outrages committed in Augher on 9 January 1829 [see also CSO/RP/OR/1829/125]. Additional private letter from Capt George Mears John Drought, [chief magistrate of police], Limerick, to William Gregory, Under Secretary, reporting a difficulty in obtaining information in relation to outrages in the area, and observing ‘I feel it will be miracle if there is not something of the kind attempted should Mr O’Connell be refused his seat in the House’.

14 Jan 1829-13 Feb 1829

1829

CSO/RP/OR/1829/138

Letter from Maj Thomas D’Arcy, Inspector General of Police [for Ulster], Belfast, [County Antrim], to William Gregory, Under Secretary, forwarding reports he received from chief constables William Colthurst, Armagh [County Armagh], and Godfrey Hill, Virginia [County Cavan], relating to the state of the country in their respective districts, in particular the murders of Orangeman James Black and Roman Catholic Mathew Duff.

9 Feb 1829-12 Feb 1829

1829

CSO/RP/OR/1829/139

Letters from Maj Thomas D’Arcy, Inspector General of Police [for Ulster], Belfast, [County Antrim], to William Gregory, Under Secretary, forwarding letters he received from chief constable Michael Colclough, Enniskillen, [County Fermanagh], enclosing 4 printed notices posted in Enniskillen and Brookboro [Brookeborough], namely: a poem by David McKinley entitled ‘Up! Orangemen Up’, containing the verse ‘By all that kind Heaven or Earth can afford, / By Religion and Laws, and by torture abhorr’d, / By base Superstition, and Priestcraft, and Crime, / UP, Orangemen, UP! – ‘tis the crisis of time’; notice quoting recent address by Lord Eldon [John Scott, 1st Earl Eldon] in the House of Lords, warning that if Roman Catholics are permitted ‘to take their seats in either House of Parliament… or if they [are] granted… the privilege of possessing the great exclusive Offices of the CONSTITUTION, from that day and that moment The Sun of Great Britain was set for ever!!!’; notice calling on Orangemen to ‘Remember William the III. Will you submit to POPERY’; and printed public notice relating to riots at Ballymoney Strand [County Antrim], and Gorey [County Wexford] on 4 June 1829, ‘when a mob of Two Hundred Persons assembled riotously to prevent the Exportation of Potatoes from the Coast’, warning that anyone involved in protesting the exportation of corn of potatoes ‘are liable to conviction thereof to suffer “DEATH AS FELONS.”’.

[c14 Feb] 1829-18 Feb 1829

1829

CSO/RP/OR/1829/140

Letter from Maj Thomas D’Arcy, Inspector General of Police [for Ulster], Belfast, [County Antrim], to William Gregory, Under Secretary, forwarding letter he received from chief constable and pay clerk John Joyce, Arney Bridge, [Enniskillen, County Fermanagh], reporting ‘a serious Party affray’ on the Cavan border on 16 February 1829.

18 Feb 1829-19 Feb 1829

1829